Jim Tierney
– List controls can be linked to data source fields. TListBox, TComboBox and VCL TListView are examples of list controls. When a list control is linked to a data source field, the selected item in the list control corresponds to the value of the data source field. To change the value of the ...

Sip from the Firehose
– RAD Studio XE3 and HTML5 Builder provide support for HTML5’s Canvas, Local Storage (both local and session storage) and Audio/Video. This short video shows each of these HTML5 features in action. The HTML5 Builder components (RPCL) make it easy to build applications in the visual designer and ...

Delphi Code Monkey
– Today I thought Microsoft had actually removed the very-useful Backup program from Windows 8. I found articles on the web that said "less than 5% of users were backing up their computers". So Microsoft's brilliant idea? Hide and rename the backup utility, and introduce the confusingly ...

Sip from the Firehose
– RAD Studio XE3 and FireMonkey 2 give you additional support for new UI controls and styles. For example, you can now add glyphs to the TEdit (edit box) component including glyphs and functionality for Clear, Password, Search, Elipsis, and more. You can also use the Object Inspector to visually ...

Stephen Ball
– So we had fun with the Developer Direct Season 2 opener today, including an outage of sound from GoToMeeting servers partway into the session. We had a lot of people hang on the line to keep watching, but as the sound was up and down I thought it would be best to re-record the section on ...

Pawel Glowacki
– Some serious fun is just about to start! Every Friday on 11AM European time there will be a free "Developer Direct" webinar with lots of cool informations and demos around Delphi, C++Builder, HTML5 Builder and other Embarcadero developer tools! Make sure to REGISTER NOW and enjoy! The idea is to ...

Brian Long
– Embo’s CodeRage 7 multi-day multi-product online conference is now open for registration! Follow this link to sign up for the Delphi and/or the C++ event – it’s totally free! You can browse the sessions in the agenda for the Delphi event here and for the C++ event here and the list of speakers is ...

Marco's Tech Blog
– I've done some research for a Delphi XE3 workshop I'm holding at my office tomorrow (in Italian). Beside the relevant new feature, I found some minor but interesting ones. Here I'm focusing mostly in the RTL area. System Unit Ignoring some relevant changes (mostly in preparation for the new ...

TPersistent.com
– Recently the DBA made some database changes in my current project and we started seeing a new error in the Eurekalog reports from my Delphi front-end. The interesting thing is that the error message was actually a warning message from SQL Server 2008 R2. The message is ‘Warning : null value ...

RemObjects Blogs
– New in Oxygene 5.2 is Gendarme Code Analysis, which is a deeply integrated, extensible rule-based system to find concerns in .NET (and Mono) applications and libraries. The name comes from the Mono Project’s Gendarme which it is based on. It is modified to integrate nicely with the Oxygene ...